🧭⚙️Climate attribution science plays a central role in climate litigation and policy-making. The science is central to legal debates on the causal links between human activities, global climate change, and impacts on human and natural systems.📚🌡️🌪️ 🔗Climate Attribution Database:

“Create a wave of truth” news.un.org/en/story/202...

I know the sky last night was a big deal. Mornings are also special! @carleton.edu arboretum

Pausing before I attempt grass…

Those of us who worked with USAID and in global health more broadly warned of this- shouting, screaming into the void. The administration- at every level- understood this would happen. It’s unconscionable.

Just now in front of McMurdo Station. Very rare to see Emperor's come right up to the front of McMurdo Station, especially so early in the summer. #scicomm 🧪

Great episode & colleague Eric Klemetti is also featured. My philosophy colleague & I were just talking about fear & humor as plot devices.

Please share! CIRES is accepting applications for the role of Associate Director of Science to oversee research activities! This position supervises others and reports to the CIRES Director. Learn more about the position: buff.ly/DE3DhQH

Higher ed has a responsibility to the public & supporting students in learning & addressing needs of the community. Thank you @alisonbyerly.bsky.social www.startribune.com/federal-gove...

Absolutely amazing. For context the oldest continuous records are around a million years old.

As the DOE touts lies. Every dollar withheld from modernizing our energy system is a gift to our economic rivals. washingtonmonthly.com/2025/10/15/t...

Writing is my coping mechanism when I am worried about a weather situation. As an unprecedented storm like #HurricaneMelissa approaches Jamaica, I feel helpless, so I write. My Tuesday morning thoughts on the storm. www.forbes.com/sites/marsha... --

Absolutely shocking cuts to graduate school. One example. “At Harvard, the cuts included a 75 percent reduction in Ph.D. seats in the Science division and a 60 percent reduction in the Arts & Humanities division over the next two years.” share.google/dYDqxUqozDYV...

Very sad. The DOI files to cut more than. 2000 jobs. Federal science is important to environmental economics, our health, & ecological protection. Cutting work to understand & support big important areas of management is harmful. thehill.com/policy/energ...

I'm proud to help lead the United Nations' #COP30 Local Leaders Forum next month in Brazil. Regional leaders — from mayors to governors — are uniquely able to turn ambitious plans to tackle the climate crisis into reality at the local level. California is all-hands-on-deck in this fight.

How far would you travel for a cause? Geographer & environmental educator Leandro Costa is biking 3,500 kilometers to COP30, with the mission of educating and listening to children, teenagers, and adults about the impacts of climate change. Learn about his journey: buff.ly/bUdeJ45 & buff.ly/RvDAiJ9

Very fun to talk water & climate with international rotary students & @carleton.edu students. Common interests included fishing, recreation, and gathering. We’re supporting engagement aligned with goals in our community to remove the dam & support a proactive response. Engagement matters!

I’m in front of the interdisciplinary science complex @carleton.edu getting ready for 24 people in AASHE’s decarbonization academy to learn about our systems approach to decarbonization & tour the East Energy Station, the brain of the district geothermal system w Linda Weingarten, AVP of facilities

On campus been working with our food service provider to understand new categories of emissions, from those we have long measured. Beef is such a big slice of food emissions. It’s been satisfying scale solution through networks (of the food provider) while students think about campus.

Reinforcing feedback loop: “fewer graduate students mean less science will be produced”, says Donna Ginther, an economist...”If this persists for a number of years, the scientific workforce will shrink.” Fewer scientists overall will mean fewer scientific discoveries. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I love local government processes & actions. Tonight our city is formally endorsing passenger rail proposed in Minnesota. Next month council votes on the purchase of a dam from Post to support its removal. These are big sustainability & justice issues & related to outcomes on campus & community.

Excited to have @alexrbarron.bsky.social on campus tomorrow. Making progress means we must keep having important conversations about climate action in higher ed & using evidence-based approaches.

A lot of comments on Mars rovers or Moon landings, but it's important to remember that the planet NASA studies most is Earth. This is less about cutting flashy things like moonwalks and more about keeping communities in the dark on climate, weather, agriculture, pollution, natural hazards, and more.

Its great to live in a town where the mayor & orgs chat about how/where we could line up the ecosystem to better respond to flooding, heat, affordable & sustainable housing & then keep the right opportunities on radar. An ecosystem helps drive outcomes.

No kings, free speech, due process, democracy!

I’d like to stop talking about ICE so I can focus on talking about ice in Greenland, Antarctica, the Arctic, and elsewhere.

“With no reporters able to ask questions, it seems the Pentagon leadership will continue to rely on slick social media posts, carefully orchestrated short videos and interviews with partisan commentators and podcasters. No one should think that's good enough.” www.npr.org/2025/10/14/g...

“if the administration succeeds in its plans to cut the 2026 federal science budget to $154 billion from $198 billion — a 25 percent reduction — it would represent the smallest amount that the federal government has spent on science in this century” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/c...

No Kings. October 18th. Free speech is action. Please join in. www.nokings.org

Increased costs to add connection now will come from rate payers. Currently, thousands of solar arrays, wind farms, battery storage systems & gas-fired power plants are waiting to connect to the nation’s electrical grids, according to various reports... www.startribune.com/energy-indus...

An inequality engine amplifies with fossil love. “Fossil fuel donors poured $96m into Trump’s 2025 presidential campaign and affiliated action committees, and contributed $11.8m to Trump’s second inauguration.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Sharing these resources today. No pie charts, only eating pie. theconversation.com/heres-why-yo...

Very cool @carleton.edu geology team & others on your @geosociety.bsky.social story that will help people with designing effective district geothermal systems. www.geosociety.org/GSA/GSA/GSAT...

Have been thinking about the increased climate risks we face in places where people live & work, & schools. One thing this reminded me of was trying to pull data on schools in Ohio that had air conditioning…it was only possible by reaching out by district. www.brookings.edu/articles/sch...

A reality check for me was working with students on an internal carbon accounting platform that Bon App our food provider uses. Beef was less than 5% of our purchases but around 50% of our food emissions even with international work to be plant forward. apnews.com/article/plan...

Good to see this. microgridmedia.com/us-solar-to-...

There is no investment in future. “There’s a focus on dismantling rather than building. It’s hard to see. We’re not present for a major global issue and are ceding that ground to our competitors, which is not good for the United States.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

In my childhood we’d hit temperatures above 90 once or twice every other yr in September. Now it’s much more common. It’s 90 today in the Twin Cities & even out of the heat island in Northfield…in October. Deleting data, & federal support doesn’t lessen change. bringmethenews.com/minnesota-we...

Great contest & use of LIDAR: “While they do not weigh individual bears during the contest because of safety concerns, Chunk and others have had their density scanned to bolster weight estimates in the past using laser technology called LIDAR” www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Journalists should never have to fear government retaliation for reporting on government activity, and showing up to work shouldn't result in your family being torn apart.

Well said, Carrie Jennings, Freshwater Policy Director reflecting on the policy landscape for data centers. “what we currently lack is a very clear path for stakeholders to figure out who to talk to” when it comes to standing up for their communities.” www.womenspress.com/data-center-...

Beautiful fall on the @carleton.edu campus!

This propaganda is not ok. www.hud.gov#close

Best part of the UMACS meeting, hearing from students about what they valued, for many it was a first professional meeting & their values truly reflect their individual identities in sustainability & climate work.

At the UMACS meeting I was so thrilled to hear of many campus-community joint climate resilience efforts in Northfield, Collegeville, Morris, Bemidji, LaCrosse, Stephens Point. Colleges are deeply joined with climate planning & implementation in these communities.

The CASCS do important work of supporting communities with climate decisions, which are really economic & community life decisions. Thinking about colleagues working at CASCS now & the communities served with a knot in my stomach. We’re losing critical work. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Well said. apnews.com/article/trum...

What a lovely open farm day @carleton.edu & a pretty focaccia with farm ingredients baked at Dacie Moses! Well done!